{"id":3875,"date":"2011-02-14T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:12:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:12:42","slug":"flip-flop-glenn-beck-embraces-community-organizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3875","title":{"rendered":"Flip Flop: Glenn Beck Embraces Community Organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GlennThere are a number of words and phrases that are repeated incessantly by Glenn Beck as he pontificates against the menagerie of menaces that haunt him. He is driven into a near panic by the mention of “social justice”<\/em> or “transformation.”<\/em> And because Barack Obama used the word “change”<\/em> in his presidential campaign, anyone else who ever uses it in any context is immediately pegged as a member of the progressive cabal that seeks to destroy America.<\/p>\n

But no other phrase is as foreboding to Beck as “community organizer.”<\/em> He has spent years demonizing the notion as some sort of secret society mechanism that can only produce harm. He frequently disparages the President as the “Community-Organizer-in-Chief.”<\/em> On his radio program on July 27, 2009, Beck said that…<\/p>\n

“If you want to understand Barrack Obama (sic), you’ve got to think like a community organizer – one that is transforming America into some sort of a thugocracy, and in the process trampling on and erasing our individual rights.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few days ago Beck advocated the need to “rebuild our communities, and not through community organizing.”<\/em> But he has now taken an abrupt turn to the enemy camp. In a shocking fit of betrayal Beck told his listeners that…<\/p>\n

“Community organizing is going to change the world. And last week I said to you, before I found out about the Freedom Connector, if you’re not organized you lose. Why did this thing happen in Egypt? Because of organization. It is community organizing on a global scale. […] Community organizing is the answer. They’re doing it and they are way ahead of us. You must, must, must connect.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Glenn Beck is now a community organizer. The problem is, he doesn’t really grasp the concept. The “Freedom Connector”<\/em> he mentioned is a new system he was announcing to help his Tea Party disciples clasp hands and fend off the nasty progressives and radicals that have infiltrated America. He teased his audience last week that he would be introducing this organizing tool that was brought to him by a couple of guys he had met with last year.<\/p>\n

Beck never mentioned the names of the “guys”<\/em> with whom he had met, but we now know who they are. The Freedom Connector turns out to be a project of FreedomWorks, the right-wing lobbying group led by Dick Armey that was instrumental in creating and bankrolling the Tea Party. I don’t think that wealthy lobbyists coordinating AstroTurf offshoots of the Republican Party qualify as community organizers. But that’s Beck’s version of it.<\/p>\n

The revolutionary idea behind Freedom Connector is that it enables people to find friends and form groups of like interest. Gee, I wonder why no one ever thought of that before. It’s like a big social network where people can post their personal profiles and….oh, wait a minute. I guess Facebook has too many liberals and foreigners for the Beck\/Tea Party crowd.<\/p>\n

Technology is not a strong point for conservatives. There are too many young people associated with it and Beck hates those darn kids<\/a>. On today’s program he actually escalated his assault on a Google employee who had helped to coordinate the protests in Egypt. Beck implied that Google was somehow responsible for this individual’s activities. Therefore, Beck advised his viewers not to use Google when researching his crackpot schemes. (Did Bing’s servers just get a traffic spike?)<\/p>\n

I really am beginning to think that Beck may be attempting to preempt Jon Stewart and The Onion by coming up with stuff that is too crazy to satirize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a number of words and phrases that are repeated incessantly by Glenn Beck as he pontificates against the menagerie of menaces that haunt him. He is driven into a near panic by the mention of “social justice” or “transformation.” And because Barack Obama used the word “change” in his presidential campaign, anyone else […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[616,44,534],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-freedomworks","tag-glenn-beck","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-10v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1471,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1471","url_meta":{"origin":3875,"position":0},"title":"Glenn Beck’s 100 Year Plan: A Century Of Idiocy","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/21\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"After spending most of this year denigrating ACORN and the general notion of community organizers, Glenn Beck is now forming his own FAKE-ORN (FAKE Organization of Right-wing Nuts). 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